Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Tine editor of the Knoxville Re-
publican advertises for the photograph
Of dollar.
"A healthy looking tramp at Bangor
asked woman if she would give him q
dinner. She told him it wasn't her
dinner hour, but she could give him a
substantial lunch. II don't want q
-lunch. want dinner.' replied the
high-toned beggar. and he talked Oh.
The wild-eyed. long-haifed. SON.
brero-topped men SO numerous in Oma-
ha nowadays are not cowboys nor
army scouts nor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the lowly red-man purchases their
wares. They are patent-medicine ia
kers from the Indianless East.-Ona,sa
Chronicle.
"A little Burlington girl who dis
likes arithmetic was asked to give The
sum of nine cows and seven cows
Fifteen" she replied. When in
formed that this was wrong. she 2etu-
lantly exclaimed: ut doesn't make
any difference if we only get the mill"
Huntington Free Press.
Mrs. Elisha Merritt. of Gainesville,
Ga. who is now over eighty years old,
has an iron pot which has been in the
possession of the family for many gem
erations. 1t was brought from Hol-
land long before the revolutionary war.
and had been in the family for several
generations before that Family ira
dition makes its age at least three hum
dred years.
"A New York State Judge who had
a kissing case before him said: There
is no objection, so far as can see. to a
man kissing girl if she be willing.
But you must not do it against her will.
She has right to object, and if she
does you mustn't do it. Be sure she is
willing before you try" If she object.
then take some girl who won't.-Oma-
ha World.
Friend Ito patent medicine manu-
facturer)-''How is your great cure
all remedy taking, old MANI" Manu-
facturer - Immensely. I've made
enough out of it in the last three
months to warrant trip to Europe"
Friend-''Going for pleasure, l sup
pose" Manufacturer-'.NO I'm 60
ing for my health. ''-Drake's Trauel-
ers' Magazine.
"A Hartford Conn., man sent his
boy into the country equipped with a
woodchuck trap and other appliances
for enjoying his vacation. and told him
to have a good time and be sure to 60
to church on Sundays. The first letter
he received from the boy said: dear
papa, I've caught woodchuck. TWAS
skunk. l did not 60 to church. Yours
affectionately."
"A lady writes the Nantucket
(Mass.) Journal that many years ago a
small army of tiny red ants took pos
session of her store closet and remained
until cool weather. Every year they
returned. She was advised to try tar,
which she did, placing large chunk
on dish in a corner of the shelf. The
ants left, and have never returned.
The same piece of tar has stood in the
same place for fifteen years.
AN old mailing table in the Ogdens-
burg IN. W post-office was torn to
pieces recently, and between the lin
ings and the outside of the shutes lead
ing to the bags were found sixty-seven
letters that had slipped through cracks
in the table. Some of the letters bore
postmark dates showing that they were
mailed in 1873. and one contained Il
foreign money order that the Post-oflice
Department made good several Years
ago.
"A man who was wanted on some
criminal charge in Dakota town re-
Gently disguised himself in wOman's
dress and bonnet and tried to drive out
of town in a carriage, but was arrested
before he had gone half a mile. The
detective happened to see the Carriage
90 past and was convinced the driver
was not 4 woman as soon as he noticed
that he didn't drive twice as fast up
hill as on the level or say whoa
twice after the horse stopped.
"A man at Prague, Bohemia. swal-
lowed small watch with chain at
tached. which joker had slipped into
Il glass of beer while the mans back
was turned. The metal, dissolved by
the acids of the stomach, has poisoned
that organ and keeps it in IN incessant
st .te of fever. making him unable to
retain food. The man has been dis
missed from the Munich hospital as in
durable. and now lies in hospital at
Prague. kept alive by food artiticially
injected. waiting to see whether the
watch will all dissolve or he will die
first.
There are now cables on almost
every sea and ocean bed. the total
length of wire laid being nearly 49,
600 nautical miles. There are nine
cables connecting Europe with Ameri-
ca. the first that was laid dating from
1858. So great. also. has the advance
been in the operative aspect of cable
telegraphy that practically no more
difficulty is felt in repairing submarine
lines than in attending to defects in
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